The Advertiser: Adelaide man in Bali drug bust :
"AN Adelaide man faces 10 years in jail after he was arrested in Bali with 1.8 grams of hashish hidden in his rented bungalow."
We are so embarrassed. This is not good for Adelaide. It makes us look like we don't read the news and we don't listen. We do. We have. We are a bit stunned. His mother was on the news last night and it is so very unfair on her to be in this position because that lady has done nothing and shouldn't be embarrassed like that. I guess , given that much of the world has had such a relaxed attitude to things like marijuana and hashish, he really wasn't thinking and clearly he wasn't out to make money or influence the lives of others. We are getting mixed messages from our global society and so we are more aware that we have to listen more carefully to individual cultures..like the English woman who got herself unwittingly into trouble by having codeine for her back pain in Dubai. It took 2 months for her to get home. Will it stop us travelling? Will more people take all their drugs at home? What will this do to us? Will the global village collapse? Will we listen to the news? Wake up , Adelaide, your country needs you. But the clash of cultures is hard for normal folk, that I have to confess.
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